seperation anxiety with dolls?

I have a little separation anxiety on and off. There are some days where all I want to do is have a doll with me or be back at home playing around with them, other days I don't really mind leaving them. I do lend Milo to friends every now and then. One just likes him, the other is deciding if she wants to get into the hobby. Now I'm not painfully attached to the little guy, but I do miss him terribly when he's gone and my love for him is always rekindled when I get him back.

Dolly separation anxiety isn't always a bad thing, in my opinion. It actually brings you closer to your doll when you get to see them again. Heck, it's kept me from falling out of love with mine.

 

i don-t feel anxiety but i miss them when im away from home for long time, especially when i have nothing to do <.<

 

Every now and then if I'm away from the apartment for a few days I'll sort of go ":/ I miss my dolls." Buuut that's about the extent of it.

 

Sometimes I think, "Hmm, I ought to do something with my doll." I definitely don't experience separation anxiety. I'm very glad, too--it would really get in my way if I had to have a doll with me constantly, even a very tiny one.

 

No, not really, but I do sometimes want to cuddle with Cass and feel a slight annoyance that he's at home right now. No more so than say, going to grab my favourite top only to discover that it's in the laundry. Separation Anxiety is something I only have with people-thank God for that! I have enough trouble with it as it is without getting attached to inanimate objects (especially dolls) as well. However, I would like to cuddle with Cass, and I am a bit annoyed that I can't have my favourite 'toy' with me right now. Still, I've got Peitan, and if all else fails, I've got a pillow. Pillow might actually be just the thing now that I think about it...

 

No....but I do feel this with my dog. I miss him terribly when I'm on vacation or even if I'm gone for the day. That's not to say I don't miss my BJDs...but they're both just to big to carry comfortably. I do enjoy seeing them sitting out in my room though, they make me smile.. When I do want to carry a doll around for photography purposes or meetups with dolly friends I take one of my blythes as they're easily toted around and I don't worry about them since they're plastic.

 

Since I have had a window smashed in and my door damaged coming home after a newyear celebration with friends in Antwerp, I am more concerned whether I find my house in tact when I get home.
I have an apartment at a complex which could be called a campus, but it isn't really a campus. But it's built to house students but there are also small apartments like mine where you can stay indefinately if you wish. But on the other side of the railroad, there is a neighbourhood which consists of mostly low educated people, often with poor social skills. It is a neighbourhood where there are certain concerns. And vandals and burglars come from other parts of the city. Burglars know they can sneak inside because many students are careless. The fact that the front doors aren't always locked is an invitation. Though they have to get up a staircase, get through the unit door, sneaking in still happens. And they climb through an open window if they see one.
My apartment was formerly two seperate rooms in one unit and the other girl living in my unit once left her room for a few minutes and when she got back, laptop was gone.
But the area is improving because a lot of new houses and apartments are being built, mostly for the commercial market which attracts people of good financial and mental status. And there is a Gymnasium school being built which attracts students of good social status(we have a "highschool" system of different levels rather than having all kids take the same education and see who makes it). For years we've had to deal with the teenagers from a low level highschool which were mostly from non-western immigrant families. Young teenagers are a pain at best, but being from lower social economic status and a culture where personal pride seems to be very important, they often proved to be a real pain in the ass. Harassing people, being difficult at the corner supermarket, vandalism, hanging out at our buildings. Glad they're gone!
Though the area is improving, I'm still worried. Sure I am away for a weekend sometimes LARPing where I just can't take the dolls but so far everything was allright when I got home. But in a couple of weeks, I'll be away camping for a week and bringing dolls just isn't practical, even though we're also attending Animecon where I'll be sure to see other dolls. But to leave them in my tent during outings while the tent might get really hot or maybe mugged. I'm not leaving anything valuable in there even though the other campers there are families and such. While I'm away, I think I'm having my dolls hide somewhere out of sight.
I've never had to deal with a break in and hopefully never will. Always lock doors and windows.

 

Yeah. When my new room mate moved in, I had my doll at home so that she wouldn't get stolen. I missed her a lot. I think at one time I cried because I missed her.

 

I don't have a doll yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if I had this very problem.

Currently I get really bad anxiety if I'm apart from my computer tablet for too long XD (I get really depressed too, it's terrible)
It's currently the only thing though. (even family. It makes me feel so heartless when I can truthfully say that I could be away from family longer than I could stay away from my tablet)

 

I used to be like that at first, then I chilled out. I would call up my mum sometimes if I was out of the house and ask her to check my girls for me, make sure they were all out of the sun. Sometimes the sun comes through my window and I worry it can reach then.

 

The only time I was ever extremely anxious about a doll was when I sent my Ryu off for a faceup in China. Not only was it the first time I ever shipped anything internationally, but I was still a relatively new doll owner. Even then, I couldn't say I was really experiencing separation anxiety, I was just worried he wouldn't get there at all. I've mellowed out a considerable amount. When I get home, the first things I check are the cats, because they tend to cause all sorts of trouble while I'm at work, then once I've handled that situation, I check the mail, tidy a bit, make dinner, find some activity to use the rest of the evening on, THEN I happen to see the floating heads and maybe look at them from time to time to inspect for damage, but I don't really look at them every day. Maybe if one of them had a body I'd be more inclined to mess around with it, but even then, I wouldn't be able to show the same. . .enthusiasm to see it that I maybe would have earlier on in the hobby.

 

My parents are divorced and I'm fifteen and live with both, I can't really be bothered to bring him along every time I move.
Sometimes I miss my doll, like when I'm with dad, left him at mum's place and I feel really inspired to go out and take some pictures of him, but it's not like I have an emotional need for him, no.

 

Guilty but its more like something is out of place. It only happens with my favorite dolls though. I have sent other dolls out for face-ups and had no problem with waiting but if I had to send Isabelle again out I would be a wreck.

Isabelle spent a week at a friend's house while getting a new face-up. I missed her terribly. Maybe it was 'cause she was one of 3 dolls I had at the time. I'd look at her empty place on the dresser and be sad. I dread having to send Beatrice out. She received a nasty scratch on her face due to a re-stringing mishap. It's not that noticeable but it will need to be fixed down the line.

 

I was planning on moving into a new house this month, but for various reasons those plans were delayed. I have all my dolls in their original shipping boxes (four SD's...it's a huge stack in the middle of my bedroom floor!) because I can't display them as I'm currently in a 1 bedroom apartment with three people. I get anxiety all the time when I have to put one back in her box after I'm done photographing her. I hate that I have to always put their wigs away carefully, their clothes, wrap them in their shipping foam, bubble wrap, faceup protectors, etc. I go to bed at night looking at this big stack of doll coffins it feels like. It stresses me out terribly and I hate it, and I totally feel separation anxiety even though they are only a foot away from my face!

 

I do use my dolls as a sort of security blanket. I feel calmer if one of them is with me, one of my bigger boys in particular (Aric and Noble are my faves to drag around), but I limit myself. There is no way for me to really drag a doll with me everywhere I go. I have children and just going out with the two of them is an undertaking. I couldn't do it if I were hefting a big doll too. So that is a natural limiter. However if I know a situation is going to be particularly difficult for me I bring a doll for comfort. I have social anxiety and SPD, it is hard for me to do conventions or be out in large groups, taking my dolls helps. Sometimes if it will just be hubby and I going out shopping or something I will take a doll then too. Whenever I finally get back to the psychiatrist I intend to take a doll with me because I find it very stressful. As far as anxiety just being separated from my dolls I don't think I really get that. I can go do things without them, and though I miss them if I am away from them for long periods I don't get really anxious about it. I did drag poor Aric along when I spent the night at my parents' house though. Not sure why I just wanted him to be there. I tend to lean on them as a crutch if I am struggling in other ways. I fully expect at least one of my dolls to move to my bedroom while my husband is away on business later this month.

 

I can kind of empathize, but mostly because I am just a natural worrier and I think about things like 'what if somebody moves them too roughly' and 'what if they break somehow' or 'what if there's a disaster of some kind and I can't get them' but I do this with my friends and cats too. (at least the last part LOL!) but I don't feel the need to constantly have them with me, I can usually put those thoughts out of my mind. ^^

 

I've felt that too, last year my El, Tala stayed with a friend while she made him some clothes, right after a load of stuff went on at home, stressful arguments and the like, around new year as usual for us. I just remember being up in my room wishing like hell that I could go get Tala back right there and then so I could huggle him. So yeah I felt separation anxiety real bad right then O.o

 

I kind of do. When I go away or to my moms, I find myself kind of wishing I had one of them to hang out with me. It's nice to just have one sit with you and just watch tv or watch you use the computer. For me, I don't feel that my dolls are high maintenance, they don't mind just keeping me company, and it's nice to have them there. Once in awhile I've wondered what its like for them in my empty room, and I sometimes find myself saying goodbye to them when I leave.

 

I'm feeling it right now. Both of mine are away for faceups and bdy blushing and I have to physically stop myself from pestering the artist every five minutes with requests for updates ^^; plus I know she'll look after them but I'm constantly thinking of new things that could happen to them cause they're out of my sight, today's panic was what if somebody breaks in a steals them :O I have an over active imagination.

 

I haven't really been long-term separated from all of my dolls since I got into the hobby. I don't think it would be severe, but I do think that I wouldn't enjoy not being able to get to any of them for an extended period of time. I hate being separated from my stuff regardless, and they're somewhere between "pet" and "stuff" status in my affections. I doubt I'll ever be happy sending a doll away for customization or other services.